OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#69VCA)
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Yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, its long-awaited next-generation AI language model. The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials, many have expressed disappointment at one particular feature: that despite the name of its parent company, GPT-4 is not an open AI model.
OpenAI has shared plenty of benchmark and test results for GPT-4, as well as some intriguing demos, but has offered essentially no information on the data used to train the system, its energy costs, or the specific hardware or methods used to create it.
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